Workshop on Social Shyness and the Role of the Family and the Media in Eliminating this Phenomenon has been organized by the Supreme Council for Family Affairs during the period November 6th-8th2007 and in which participated Ms Muneera Bu-Hindi, Bahraini Shura Parliamentary Member, Dr Aiysha Al-Mannai, Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies in University of Qatar, Dr Abdul-Aziz Al-Meghaisib, Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Qatar, Dr Rabia Al-Kuwari, Assistant Professor in Media in the University of Qatar. The Workshop concluded with a number of recommendations in which were stressed the necessity for conducting a study to survey prevalence of the social shyness phenomenon in the Qatari community, concentrating on social shyness among persons with disability, and the role of universities and academic and research centers to conduct more scientific researches on the social shyness phenomenon and the role of the family in dispersing the social shyness phenomenon among persons with disability

The recommendations consisted of 20 items containing the need to clarify the role of the media in treating the social shyness phenomenon through counseling and school curricula, and continuing organizing similar workshops and focusing on the role of the school in diagnosing and treating social shyness phenomenon. Concentration was also laid on the inclusion policy practiced in schools and conducting other workshops with a wider participation of parents of persons with disability in order to prescribe school curricula and activities with the assistance of the media concentrating on the conducts and ways of behavior that lead to the social shyness phenomenon and the efforts to disperse them and get rid of them altogether. There was another recommendation which stressed the importance of creating a special committee to follow up and counsel families that have persons with disability, rehabilitating families that have a child with an in-born disability and rehabilitate such a family in accordance with the type of the disability, and to further efforts to coordinate between SCFA and the concerned bodies about the mechanism of early diagnosis of the disability and then preparing workshops for creating an educational system to raise the educational level of the hard of hearing to make them overcome their social shyness. Other recommendations stressed the conducting of studies about families that have persons with disability in order to limit the social shyness phenomenon, and furthermore, to increase the programs and activities that deal with the social shyness phenomenon and how to address this phenomenon. There was another recommendation which stated the importance of establishing a department or a specialized body in hospital to assist guardians of persons with disability as well as physicians to address in-born disability on one hand, and how to deal with parents, on the other

It suffices to say that the Workshop witnessed the participation of over a hundred attendees concerned with persons with disability and guardians with pioneer experiences in persons with disability care